Barbara Ann Brennan

Advantages: Opens your mind
Disadvantages: Very scientific in parts

...at – the background is mid-blue in colour with a pair of slightly cupped hands facing upwards with rays of light permeating from them. The book is actually a guide to the art of healing via the human energy field and I really do feel that you should have a truly open mind before reading it. It is aimed at self-understanding and self-revelation and deals with the healing art of laying-on of hands. The book recounts the personal experiences of the author, Barbara Ann Brennan, an American. The theory is that our body exists within a larger “body” otherwise known as the human energy field or aura and it is this field which is the vehicle through which we have our experiences including health and illness. Before reading this book, I didn’t understand at all about energy fields and faith healing. I am not saying that I am an expert now because I am not... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting, well written, excellent plot
Disadvantages: Confusing number/names of characters

...Having never read Barbara Vine aka Ruth Rendall, I was a little unsure if I would enjoy this book. It’s a thriller that keeps you guessing at every chapter. I would recommend it to people who enjoyed reading an intelligent well-written story. The book starts with the diary entries of a woman called Asta who is an immigrant from Denmark in 1905. The story then switches to the modern day where we find Asta's granddaughter (Ann) has just attended the funeral of her Aunt Swanny (one of Asta’s daughters). The diaries of Asta are best sellers and have created a lot of public interest and as yet, there are still a few that are unpublished. Swanny had previously looked after them however she has passed them on to her Ann in her will. It is Ann’s task to complete and finalise the publishing of the last remaining diaries however it starts... Read review

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Advantages: A fanstatic read
Disadvantages: None

...Kathy Reichs has been described as "another Patricia Cornwall." This is unfair on Kathy Reichs because, unlike Patricia Cornwall, Kathy Reichs is a real forensic scientist. Because, after all, Patricia Cornwall only ever typed up the notes of a forensic scientist, whilst working as a secretary in a pathology laboratory. In Monday Mourning the skeletons of three young girls are found in the basement of an old building that is currently a pizza parlour. Yet a mysterious 'phone call from an old lady soon tells Tempe Brennan (the forensic anthropologist heroine of Kathy Reich's novels) that the building was not always a pizza parlour. Some years ago it was a very different type of a parlour. With a rather unsavoury reputation. Detective Luc Claudel dismisses the three skeletons as historic and of no interest to the police. But Tempe, using... Read review

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